The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-06-19
ELECTRICITY TO CARRY US.
THE sFFoRTs TO EMPLOY THE SUBTLE
CURRENT AZ a MOTOR.
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Tho world Ia beginning to throb with
trained electricity. This mysterious forcc has
long been running quietly on pyramids, bring
ing and earring good and evil reports oil tho
world over. Moro recently T. began to echo md
reecho the distracted halo OF tho telephone
victim. Finally. II has taken still newer de-
parture, and offers to become tho servant OF oil
work for whoever will take the trouble OF
pressing It into his service.
Pass down the street, and before you roach
the next corner you will be startled by vigor-
GUS rnt-a- tat-tat on window pane. 1t Is only
tailor calling attention to the spring styles;
md tho little figure In the window. pounding
80 yiciously on the glass, might DO lifo-size
image Of tho tailor himself were It true. nc
cordtng to the old calumny-which II Is not
that 1t takes nine tniors to make man. Pass
along little further and at u window In the
next block you may witness miniature come
dy scene, A belatcd roveller. wearing hat
which tells tho tale Of short, but de-
cisive wrestle with tho night air, Is
fuinbl!ng with n latch key ut the door
O: his supposed dwelling. Tho window OF an
upper story suddenly opens, and an animated
stick. darts forward. Tho old roprobate starts
back. literally electrified md shocked ut tho
apparition OF marital infelicity which he hns
conjurcd up. This may be called tho first sccne
In tho now lightning DIANA o! the future. Tho
day Ia to come. perhaps, when we are to have
dramatic representations without the incident
OF expensive stars: and will be able to estimate
the cost Of an evenings entertainment by tho
CONSUMPTION of coal and the loss or gain in the
transmission OF power.
But these arc only tho toys that have sprung
from tho application Of electricity rs motor.
moro earnest work Is going forward where
scientific men are engaged In developing tho
industrial, resources Of tho electric curront.
Fortune has united the electric light and tho
electric motor as yoke fellows. and they nre
destined to pull together in o common field.
Both seem to demand the Same general con-
It's 'G ;uii comnsrcial eiIlcicncy without the
other: The light Geeos d1ynamSSs nos and aaa,os
s sSy long S to give row
because when the weary go TO rost there will
always be found u few people condemned to
thS Wheel and e9mpssd 70 mske n "a 81 IT,
each utilizing the surplus energies 81 the other.
d dns s sHh n e
mSrn ain. they might both 60 70 Sleep out s
more simple. versS lew PERSONS however. not
Sass s
operations. Imagine common horseshoe
nseea % 's an esss Of t4s :Ssps
say. ior iiasssstion. ong ioot Il diameter.
a. short az and equal distances, ma / be placed
a succession q armatures: When tho
sss'sS have %e enGsnoy hes se
sose sut S5eas the for
Gi fy Oh and ieSSe tho cold iron e piay is
sps Ss SsHs Gaf se key i shs 4
seli remains M the BASIS q improysd Do
sum ri q snoiIier whes say two Inches
dsmstsI ard y The Larger Wheel
ne,ns Ssd sad
%s.sss s ,s
through the ma magnet but the Instant i touched
SroeeR. TH These ssonSiti9Rs Sein s ppeparsd
start the larger wheel while the point Of the
on sSs 1hss
pulse 81 ATTRACTION, viii rush toward the point
nsse Sa sseeon the
smaller wheel. and tho current eeases. The
sse q gn no ss en Sssf h mp e
b played on the next ermature coming up
touches another conducting section, this SEQ
ond srmatqEe repeats t.. the effort Of lie Prsde.
goes on until tho wheel. continsaily gathering
ssa sF.dssted IL siss to sdspss Il q .ks isSaSi
to "a T. pon
served IN some Of the more highly developed Of
ton and momentum alone TOR driving the pull
tive aud negative. electrical currents are gem
Grated and played of, the one against the othor,
through the agency Of Sorresponding meehan-
the power Without Sorrespond insly increasing
III s Claimed M that 81 eee
trio current Is transmitted In mechanical
s tho Sd eeSfo
new, invention TO those not familiar with the
fact, the electrician. jacob. under the patron
age Of the Gar Of Russia, propelled boat on
and not many years later Prof. Page, in this
TIC ioconotise Sesweea Waskinsssn and Blsd-
ssnsburg ct a speed q nineteen miles an hour
ments on account of the rudimeptary methods
OF generating electricity; and had not the cleo
trio light been made commercially successful
tho motor would still be floating IN the brain Of
bility. Now. however. It has been caught and
made objective, Thousands Of electric motors
are at work In various parts Of the country
ranging In capacity from one-half to twenty
horse power, and they are transferring freight
Ing elevators. driving vent!lstors. and msking
industrial service. 4 single company reports
the manufacture and sale Of s15O,000 worth OF
the motors within o month.
The adeptsbtlity q the motor for operating
the American people. BEING entirely noiseless.
perfectly, clean, susceptible Of being started,
button, and cheap, both IN constructing and
operating its utility for the lighter kinds Of
Industrial eeryice Is beyond question. But
nothing in the form OF motor can satisfy tho